Critique of Religion and Philosophy
10 best books like Critique of Religion and Philosophy (Walter Kaufmann): Politics, The Republic, Persian Letters, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Metaphysics, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Phaedo, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0486414248 |
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140449140 |
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge?...
| Author | Montesquieu |
| ISBN | 0140442812 |
This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country - the modern Iran - to journey to Europe in search of wisdom. As they travel, they write home to wives and eunuchs in the harem and to friends in France and elsewhere. Their colourful observations...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872204200 |
La figura de Descartes como filósofo no ha sido objeto de unánime interpretación. Sobre todo en la actualidad se juzga y pondera su obra. no menos que su personalidad, de manera diferente. Para algunos, Descartes es de preferencia un metodólogo (W. Windelband, P. Natorp...) . Su preocupación,...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521626951 |
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 1888009039 |
I have very mixed feelings about Aristotle.
On the one hand, he's so tedious and uninspiring. This is only partially his fault: everything we have of his are lecture notes, and so it is no surprise that they are stylistically wanting. Many scholars think that Metaphysics contains many sections...
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0872206335 |
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, by Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), John M. Cooper (Editor)
Five dialogues, Plato; Introduction by A.D.Lindsay. London: J.M.Dent & sons Ltd, 1947...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192838768 |
David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what is known of the universe, or whether such a belief is even consistent with such knowledge. The Natural History of Religion investigates the origins of belief,...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0691020817 |
In many ways, this book is necessary while also being provocative. Whether you are Christian or not, though particularly if you are, this book could very well be necessary. As S.K. often said, basically, “In this day and age… this book is necessary.” The same could be said for today. As many Christians...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0385092105 |
Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, and other themes central...
